Ethane is an alkane having two carbon atoms bound to hydrogen atoms. Recall what you have learned about the tetravalent nature o

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Ethane is an alkane having two carbon atoms bound to hydrogen atoms. Recall what you have learned about the tetravalent nature o

f carbon and predict the chemical formula of this molecule.

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svlad2 [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-31T13:27:33+03:00

The molecule for ethane is C2H6. or CH3-CH3.

Carbon LOVES hydrogen. If possible, Carbon would have four bonds attach to hydrogens. IN this molecule, one of the bond is used to attach a carbon to another carbon, so instead of 4 hydrogens, each carbon would have 3 hydrogens..